Wednesday, 30 September 2009

When Songs become Film Titles

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i spy with my eyes films that got their titles from songs

With the hundreds if not thousands of bollywood movies which are released yearly, its no surprise that sometimes when directors are stuck on what to name their films, they often resort to the names of famous filmi songs, below is a huge list of some of my bollywood fan musings indeed some of them might just be coincidences, but then i doubt it

Tirchi Topiwale from Tridev (1989) (i love all the songs from this film, this is kalyanji Anandji at their best, this song contains a clever use of Gloria Estefans 'Rhythm's Gonna Get you')became a 1998 film starring Chunky Pandey & Monica Bedi

Buddha Mil gaya (ok i'm cheating a bit here, the song is called 'main kya karu ram mujhe buddha mil gaya') from Sangam (1964) ( this is the song that made me fall in love with Vyjayanthimala, even if you don't watch the others, make sure you watch this one for her funny facial expressions and superb moves) again became a 1971 film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee starrin Navin Nischol, Om Prakash & Archana

Ek Hasina Thi from Karz (1980) became a 2004 film of the same name starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan

In yet another song from karz (1980) 'Om Shanti Om' became a 2007 Farah Khan film starring Shahrukh Khan & Deepika Padukone

In what could possibly be the most ridiculous of the bunch John Jani Janardhan a great song from Manmohan Desai's Naseeb (1981) with the who's who of 60's, 70's and 80's hindi cinema making cameos and of course this is where Farah Khan got her 'Om Shanti Om' Deewangi Deewangiidea from. Anyway the song became a 1984 film starring Rati Agnihotri, Poonam Dhillon and Rajnikanth

Kambakkht Ishq (in one of my favourite bollywood rip off picturisations, yes the picturisation of this song rips off parts of Madonna's Human Nature) from Pyar Tune Kya Kiya (2001) became a 2009 film with Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor

9 comments:

Wow, that is an impressive list! Must have taken a lot of effort :-)Here are a few more:

Eena Meena Deeka was a song from the Kishore Kumar-Vyjyantimala starrer Asha, and was the title of a 1994 film.

In Sangam (the same film that had Vyjyantimala dancing to Buddha mil gaya), Raj Kapoor's character sang Bol Radha bol sangam hoga ke nahin. Bol Radha Bol is a 1992 film with Rishi Kapoor and Juhi Chawla.

Also in 1992, there was a film called Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh - the original song was in the Meena Kumari-Raj Kumar starrer Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi.

And my favourite: in 1965, Shammi Kapoor acted opposite Rajshree in Jaanwar, which featured the song Tumse acchha kaun hai. 4 years later, in 1969, he starred with Babita in a film called Tumse Acchha Kaun Hai.

@ dusted off Thanks for pointing me out to some new ones there Aasha indeed was also the name of a 1980 film with Jeetendra and Reena Roy and ah yes how could i have forgotten Bol Radha Bol

@ Pradosh thanks for stopping by i indeed rmembered THE DDLj song but the list was getting rather too long and exhaustive, tahnks for adding some i didn't know of as well. Zindagi hai safar was also a song from the 1971 movie Andaz

@ Bhargav Indeed i won't be surprised if someone does that soon or better still and i'm guessing this one is around the corner 'Dhan te nan' ;0)

You never fail to impress me! What a great post - can't imagine how long it took you to compile it. Recognized quite a few of the origin songs - some are in my list of favs. Now do all the "movies of the same name" feature the original song in them? I know that OSO and RNBDJ do for sure, what about the others?

Lol bollywoodfan, i won't be surprised if a film with that title is just around the corner, you better hurry ;0)

@ Shell it was quite exhausting, there were actually more but i was way getting way too tired. I saw your post on 'Woh lamhe' the other day and there's actually a song from Zeher called woh lamhe (see the link below)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WfqJ3QrFZM

I haven't seen all the movies that i listed above,but from the ones i've seen none apart from Oso and RNBDJ which you've mentioned played the songs in their film but Bachna ae haseeno (2008) contains a remixed version of the original track where it got its name from. See it below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOD_Y1yjCw

and the aa dekhen zara includes a remixed version of the original track from Rocky

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